Jovcott Stifles leich Jewess laienieiii says Ionian Journalist ' Give View on Suffering of Ccrmin Compatriots Starvation Likely No Hope Ileld for Wive and Daughter of Jewa - flow wta the Hitler enii-: SemltUm policy if feet the live of German women of Jevteh blood? Dr Rati Graefenburg German Jewess dixmssesthat ' hen She it jovrnaUMt-trc- eltr t graduate of Heidelberg and tht former wife of Pram UUttetn owner of the largest pubUthtng house in Germany whence the came three weeks tgo : By Dr Roale Graefetilmrf i f Copyright 193S by The Tlmes-' ttapatflx and the N A H A) ! KTW YORK April 15— Six hundred "' thousand people of Jewish blood and ' million tod a half with part Jewish ! blood or married to Jewish people In German are affected by tnemuer boycott— two million and more Jewish me - and women t Ttx Jewish women were active in tht same professions now cloned to 'Jewish men by the boycott If the Jewesses had had academic education they could find work tu various government offices as doctors in state and municipal clinics as teachers otherwise they were journalists actresses stagers and in commerce ' Like the Jewish men their existence to threatened and most of them are likely to starve The opportunity to readapt themselves scarcely exists "And those German Jewesses whose material existence is not immediately threatened have lost the spiritual foundation of their life J As individuals the German Jewesses i - x l V f 4 CUinpiClieiJ UUUWU UUIr VI KIWI former life shut out of the German community whose spiritual and material fate they have chared for generations and they are thrown back Jnt the ghetto-like darkness of centuries long ago If there are degrees of suffering the "back to the ghetto" movement Is more painful for the Jewish women than for the men At a time when tht Jew In Germany was only accepted in the professions the Jewess in spite of and because of a strange and foreign charm attractive to Germans was received la German society as si very stimulating and living element The Jewess in Germany has no big productive record Hers was a receptive strength As such she helped to set free the productive strength of the Genr-i Intellectuals The leader of the German romantics i a wholly German Intellectual movement In the early nineteenth century cannot be thought of without txmsidering tht role Jewish women played in It— Henrietta Hers confidants of the Protestant philosopher bCEUjermncner nenritu jkiw-sohn wife of the historian and philosopher A W Bctuegel and Rahel Vtmhagen-Levin friend of the Prussian hero Prince Louis Ferdinand and bf the poH Von Klelst who was one of ths first to recognise the greatness nf Oeethe and to proclaim ft During ths nineteenth century the pun ox tne Jewess in uumiu our - tural and spiritual life became in- creasingly Important and she helped the Jew to take his place later on Jewish women fostered German music Jewish women created social centers to which German poets philosophers and politicians were glad to come Nowhere In the world were the re latlons between Jew and Christian so natural and without reservations as tnarriasea esneciallv amons the arls- toeracy and among the intelligentsia have been Increasingly frequent since the end of the nineteenth century Only to the Jews does the national 'revolution hi Germany give no chance "Yet for generations they have been hound to the spiritual and cultural iife of Germany an their thought and work since earlr youth have been concerned with Germany Ths anti-Semitism of the National Socialists is built on the primitive doc trine that race and nation are idenu rL and that a Jew can never feel himself otherwise than as a Jew: ha jrould never be an Englishman an Italian and above as a German - - to B of of
